I’m a science journalist with a background in experimental physics. In October 2022, I joined Quanta Magazine as a staff writer covering theoretical computer science. I live in New York City.

I previously worked as a freelancer covering physics research across a range of different subfields. You can find links to all my published writing here. I also maintain a blog called Measuring in Reflection, though I post rather infrequently; in the sidebar on that page you can sign up for my mailing list if you so desire.

From 2017 to 2021 I was a postdoctoral researcher at JILA, a quantum and atomic physics research institute in Boulder, Colorado, where I studied the quantum behavior of (relatively) macroscopic objects and its application to quantum communication networks.

Before that I was a PhD student at Yale, where I conducted an experiment to search for a hypothetical particle that might constitute dark matter. My thesis was awarded the 2019 Mitsuyoshi Tanaka Dissertation Award in Experimental Particle Physics. You can read more about my graduate and postdoctoral research here.

Before attending grad school I worked for a year assembling the vacuum system for an experiment called the Holometer at Fermilab, a national particle physics lab in the suburbs of Chicago. If you google the Holometer you will find this picture of young me lying on the floor in an entirely unnecessary lab coat.

I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2011 with a degree in physics after initially thinking I would study history or linguistics. I grew up in Los Angeles and was born in Somerville, Massachusetts. 

This concludes your brief reverse-chronological tour of my life. When I’m not writing, I enjoy board games, long walks, reading books, looking at trees, and talking to humans.